to Joseph that the name of Mary's son would be Jesus, because "he would save his people from their sins." (Matt. 1:21.) The "good tidings of great joy" which the angel announced to the shepherds would be to all people were: "For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." (Luke 2:11.) It fits in perfectly with the prophecy in Micah 5:2, "But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting."
The whole life of Jesus proved him to be the deliverer of his people from sin, sickness, error—from evil of every kind. All of his work was of a saving character. As he himself said, "I came to seek and to save that which was lost."
And there are simply myriads of people today who accept him as a personal Divine Saviour, or deliverer from their evils and their spiritual enemies. They claim the saving work of Jesus has been continued through the ages since he was upon the earth. There must be some basis in fact for this limitless belief in him as Saviour.
